A Professor of Law at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Joy Ezeilo, has lamented the depreciation of her salary’s purchasing power coupled with inflation, stating that it costs her up to one-fifth of her salary to buy water for her compound monthly. Ezeilo revealed this on her X handle on Saturday, adding that the N1m…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Abuja zone, on Monday, lamented the death of some of its members owing to Economic hardship in the country alongside poor remuneration of academics and unfavourable working conditions. The union said no fewer than 46 academics lost their lives in universities under the Abuja zone, namely the University of…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has lamented payment of their members an amputated two-month salaries by the Federal Government out of the seven and the half-month withheld salaries. ASUU Abuja zonal coordinator, Comrade Salahu Mohammed Lawal, stated this at a press conference in Abuja on Monday. The salaries were withheld when the administration…
Authorities of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) have confirmed registration of 1,733,945 candidates so far for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)
The Federal Government has commenced the payment of the withheld salaries of academics under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Multiple sources in the academic sector confirmed the development to our correspondent in Abuja on Monday. The chairperson of ASUU at the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Prof. Gbolahan Bolarin, who confirmed…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has released a schedule of zonal press conferences to be held across their various zones in Nigeria. The zonal congress is coming after the decision of the NEC meeting held few days ago by the national organ of the union.
Students from no fewer than 155 institutions may be barred from processing Direct Entry admissions owing to failed verification from their certificates awarding institutions. The registration for DE examinations, it was gathered, is set to commence on February 28, 2024. In February 2023, JAMB issued an advisory to guide candidates seeking to gain admissions through…
The management of the Kwara State University, Malete (KWASU) has re-enabled payment portal for students of the university for the 2023/2024 academic session.
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has announced a two-day nationwide mass protest for February 27 and 28 in response to the worsening economic hardship in the country. NLC President Joe Ajaero declared this during a press conference at Labour House, Abuja. This move comes after the NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) issued a…
